Military history is full of examples where tactical reserves are allocated to deal with unforeseen developments. There is a discussion regarding the value of reserves between representatives of different military theoretical orientations, where maneuver theorists look more favorably on reserves than attritional warfare theorists. The Swedish army t...
The aim of this paper is to examine the way political parties use populist discourse on social media following a terrorist attack. I analyze what type of populist language is used, and which parties use it, with a theoretical framework of Jagers and Walgrave (2007) and Magin et al. (2024). This is done by studying the 2017 terrorist attack in Swede...
Under 2023 fördes i Sverige en intensiv debatt kring de pågående protesterna i form av bränningar av koranen. I debatten har flera av partierna lagt fram förslag på möjliga lagändringar i syfte att stoppa bränningarna. I denna studie undersöker jag hur svenska politiker inramat koranbränningarna i den svenska korandebatten, och vilken re...
Syfte: Syftet med uppsatsen är att undersöka hur och varför Umeå kommun och Umeå universitet samverkar. Fokus är på samverkan genom externfinansierade projekt. Projekten studeras med referensramen nätverksstyrning för att skapa en djupare förståelse om hur samverkan sker. Uppsatsen bidrar till en ökad kunskap om samverkan genom nätverksstyrning på ...
It has been shown that people are passive when it comes to political participation in the climate issue. This is despite the fact that the issues related to climate change are growing. Students have been pointed out as a group especially likely to be engaged in the issue but still we haven´t quite seen an emergence of climate movements among studen...
The purpose of this paper is to attempt to identify if different levels of young members of parliament have a noticeable effect on young voters. This is done by examining electoral turnout and trust in parliament through statistical analysis using Denmark and Sweden as comparative cases. This paper is grounded in recent studies and research into yo...
There is currently a global trend of democratic backsliding. The term democratic backsliding refers to the process in which a country undergoes a transition towards more authoritarian values and behavior. This process can weaken the democratic norms and institutions and can occur in democratic, hybrid, and nondemocratic regimes. Many countries arou...
With the Indo Pacific being one of the most economically and geopolitically significant regions in the world currently, the competition for influence between the two major powers of the region has picked up, alongside the discourse which takes place from each side through multilateral means. Literature has shown the vast amounts of previous researc...
